The 32 piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven have been called ‘the New Testament of piano music', and belong to the most recorded repertoire of any instrument. With this disc, volume eight in his traversal of Beethoven's music for solo piano, Ronald Brautigam has reached the last of the 32, completing a sonata cycle which has made a great impression on all who have been following it. As one reviewer, in Süddeutsche Zeitung, described his reaction, ‘one almost feels like a contemporary of Beethoven's, one of the first to hear this music – immensely astonished, not to say agitated.' His colleague in The Times (UK) agreed, claiming that ‘Beethoven the revolutionary comes closer than ever in Brautigam's fiery interpretations.' Brautigam has chosen to record these seminal works on fortepiano, and throughout the series uses two different instruments mirroring the rapid development of the piano during the three decades that saw the birth of these sonatas. This has certainly added to the interest in the series, and caused the critic in Fanfare magazine to imagine ‘a stylistic paradigm shift – a Beethoven piano-sonata cycle that challenges the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments'. But first and foremost it is the purely musical qualities of Ronald Brautigam's cycle that have impressed listeners, as witness the following quote from a review in Gramophone: ‘Stunning performances that are technically breathtaking, stylistically astute, emotionally intense and musically alive in every moment.' The final chapters in Beethoven's pianistic testament are no less thrilling than those that have preceded them, and Brautigam's readings of them make for a grand finale of the sonata cycle. As an appendix to this recording, the early, unnumbered Bonn sonatas will appear on disc in the autumn of 2010, to be followed by a further eight discs of Variations, Bagatelles and other pieces for solo piano.

• Wykonawca Brautigam Ronald
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik SACD

Pięciopłytowy album z serii „Original Album Series”.

• Wykonawca Paxton Tom
• Data premiery 2010-07-29
• Nośnik CD

CORO is delighted to announce the release of the BBC’s groundbreaking Sacred Music series on DVD. The double DVD set which will be unveiled at the MIDEM music conference in Cannes in January is available at retail from February 2010. Presented by renowned actor and former chorister, Simon Russell Beale, Sacred Music explores the flowering of Western sacred music in four episodes. Taking the viewer on a pilgrimage spanning six centuries Simon presents a rich mix of personal, political and musical stories. Each episode features some of the greatest choral music ever written, all performed by the Gramophone Award-winning and Grammy-nominated choir The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers in appropriate architectural settings.A 90-minute concert ‘An Easter Celebration’ performed by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen and featuring music from the Sacred Music series, culminating in Allegi’s famous Miserere, was specially recorded at LSO St Luke’s in London. This concert will be released in April on CORO DVD. A preview of 'Sacred Music An Easter Celebration' is included as a bonus feature on the Sacred Music DVD.

• Wykonawca The Sixteen
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik DVD

Druga z serii podsumowań kariery wspaniałej grupy Chicago, która w genialny sposób potrafiła połączyć jazz rock, rock progresywny, bluesa, soul, funky, a także pop rock i hard rock.Do kartonika w ramach "Original Album Series Vol. 2" wsadzono pięć zapakowanych w kartonowe repliki oryginalnych okładek płyty z lat 1975 – 1984. Konkretnie, multiplatynową składankę "Chicago IX –Greatest Hits '69 – '74" plus studyjne dzieła: "Chicago X", "Chicago XI", "Chicago 16" i "Chicago 17".

• Wykonawca Chicago
• Data premiery 2013-09-02
• Nośnik CD

O wyjątkowości serialu "Twin Peaks" decydują nie tylko wspaniałe kreacje aktorskie i niesamowite historie w serialu, lecz również muzyka. Fani serialu ucieszą się, że na rynku są dostępne aż dwie ścieżki dźwiękowe do "Twin Peaks"! Ścieżki dźwiękowe otrzymały tytuły "Twin Peaks (Music From The Limited Event Series)" oraz "Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)". Ukazały się na CD i na podwójnym winylu. Na pierwszym wydawnictwie znalazły się piosenki artystów, jacy pojawili się w serialu, na scenie w klubie "Roadhouse" w Twin Peaks i nie tylko tam. Zaczyna się od nowej wersji tematu głównego, skomponowanego oczywiście przez Angelo Badalamentiego, a dalej mamy utwory autorstwa między innymi Chromatics, Sharon Van Etten, Nine Inch Nails, Rebekah Del Rio, Lissie, ZZ Top, Eddiego Veddera. Drugie wydawnictwo to z kolei w przeważającej mierze utwory skomponowane na potrzeby serialu przez Angelo Badalamentiego, w tym inny główny temat. Wśród 18 kompozycji znajdziemy także nagrania grupy Chromatics, która w obrazie kilka razy pojawiła się na scenie w knajpie w Twin Peaks, jak i kompozycję jednego z ulubieńców Davida Lyncha, Krzysztofa Pendereckiego – "Ofiarom Hiroszimy – tren". Trzeci sezon "Twin Peaks" zadebiutował w HBO Polska 22 maja, w USA serial pokazywała stacja Showtime. Na produkcję złożyło się 18 odcinków. Wszystkie wyreżyserował David Lynch. W główną rolę Agenta FBI Dale'a Coopera wcielił się ponownie laureat Złotego Globu Kyle MacLachlan. Oprócz niego na ekranie pojawiają się: Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, Monica Bellucci, Jim Belushi, Michael Cera, Richard Chamberlain, Laura Dern, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Berenice Marlohe, Tim Roth, Amanda Seyfried, Naomi Watts oraz polska aktorka Karolina Wydra. Tracklista: LP 1 Side A 1. Twin Peaks Theme (Falling) – Angelo Badalamenti 2. American Woman (David Lynch Remix) - Muddy Magnolias 3. Laura Palmer’s Theme (Love Theme From Twin Peaks) - Angelo Badalamenti 4. Accident / Farewell Theme - Angelo Badalamenti 5. Grady Groove (feat. Grady Tate) - Angelo Badalamenti Side B 1. Windswept (Reprise) - Johnny Jewel 2. Dark Mood Woods / The Red Room - Angelo Badalamenti 3. The Chair/Angelo Badalamenti 4. Deer Meadow Shuffle – Angelo Badalamenti LP 2 Side C 1. Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima (with Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra) - Witold Rowicki 2. Slow 30’s Room - David Lynch & Dean Hurley 3. The Fireman - Angelo Badalamenti Side D 1. Saturday (Instrumental) - Chromatics 2. Headless Chicken – Thought Gang (Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch) 3. Night – Angelo Badalamenti 4. Angelo Badalamenti – Heartbreaking 5. Angelo Badalamenti – Audrey’s Dance 6. Angelo Badalamenti – Dark Space Low

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2017-09-08
• Nośnik Płyta Analogowa

Tracklista: CD 1 Star Trek 1. Star Treek 2. Labor Of Love 3. Hella Bar Talk Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) 4. The Box 5. Repairs Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) 6. Ba’ku Village 7. The Healing Process Star Trek: First Contact (1996) 8. Red Alert 9. Welcome Aboard Star Trek: Generations (1994) 10. Time Is Runnig Out 11. Two Captains Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991) 12. Assassination 13. The Battle For Peace CD 2 Star Trek: The Final Frontier (1989) 1. Free Minds 2. An Angry God Star Trek: The Voyage Home (1986) 3. Hospital Chase 4. Main Title Star Trek: The Search For Spock (1984) 5. Prologue And Main Title 6. The Mind Meld 7. Bird Of Prey Decloaks 8. Returning To Vulcan Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) 9. Khan’s Pets 10. Enterprise Clears Moorings Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) 11. Ilia’s Theme 12. Floating Office CD 3 Enterprise (TV series, 2001) 1. Enterprise First Flight 2. The Rescue Star Trek: Voyager (Tv series, 1995) 3. Aemagonnen 4. Last Hope 5. Main Title Star Trek: Deep Space Mine 6. Dad Admonishes 7. Main Title Star Trek: The Next Generation (Tv series, 1987) 8. Suite From The Inner Light 9. Suite From The Heart Of Glory 10. Main Title Star Trek (Original Tv Series, 1966) 11. A Matter Of Pride 12. Bartender Bit 13. Main Title  

• Wykonawca Global Stage Orchestra
• Data premiery 2009-05-28
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: LP 1 1. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 2. Out of the Blue 3. Between Seventeen and Twenty 4. The Wide-eyed and Laughing 5. Someone's Final Song 6. Where's the Shoorah? 7. If There's a God in Heaven (What's He Waiting For?) 8. Idol 9. Theme from a Non-existent TV Series LP 2 1. Your Starter For. . . 2. Tonight 3. One Horse Town 4. Chameleon 5. Boogie Pilgrim 6. Cage the Songbird 7. Crazy Water 8. Shoulder Holster 10. Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)

• Wykonawca Elton John
• Data premiery 2017-09-22
• Nośnik Vinyl / 12" Album

This disc is the first of a series that will present the entire piano-accompanied songs and vocal works of Johannes Brahms. As such it is a companion series to those undertaken by Hyperion for the songs of Schubert, Schumann, Fauré and Strauss.Brahms, like Schumann, but unlike Schubert with his much greater output, issued the majority of his songs in groups collected by opus number. There is a tendency in modern scholarship to suggest that he envisaged, or at least hoped for, performances of his songs in these original opus number groupings. Of course one cannot deny that some planning (though of a rather variable kind) went into the arrangement of these song bouquets for publication, but good order and cohesion in printed form (as in an anthology where poems are arranged to be discovered by the reader in a certain sequence), though pleasing to the intellect, do not automatically transfer to the world of the recital platform where one encounters a host of different practical problems, casting (male or female singer) and key-sequences (high or low voice) among them. There is nothing more meticulously planned in all song literature than the volume of 53 songs of Hugo Wolf’s Mörike Lieder—but we have no evidence to suggest that the composer, who had worked closely with the publishers to make this volume a feast for the eye, envisaged a performance of these songs in a single sitting, or on a single day.Printed poetry collections are as lovingly assembled as an opus of a composer’s varied settings, but this does not mean the poems therein are designed to be read aloud from cover to cover: the compiler of these volumes, whether or not the poet himself, would expect items to be selected by the reader according to taste or need. The anthology (or indeed opus number) might be likened to a well-ordered jewel case from which precious items may be extracted for use, depending on the occasion: the wearing in public of every item therein on a single occasion would be both impractical and vulgar. There is little evidence, especially from concert practice of the time (where items from the Schubert and Schumann cycles were often ruthlessly excerpted), that Brahms’s publications were conceived within a spirit of cyclic unity that called for an integral performance of the entire group.There is a modern tendency to see a famous cycle like Winterreise as the nineteenth-century norm to which all other groups of songs should be made to conform, and this ‘search for cycles’ has become something of an obsession in present-day musicology, a means of using the popularity of Schubert’s and Schumann’s genuine cycles as an excuse to pretend that there are similarly cohesive works in the repertoire waiting to be rescued, or restored to the unified shape the composer had intended for them all along. It is perhaps a symptom of our ‘bigger is better’ society that solitary songs, exquisite miniatures, are thought to be more significant if they form a part of something bigger. If this is true, it represents an ongoing challenge to the planners of programmes whose efforts can yield far better and more imaginative results when allowed to range over a broader canvas than that of a single opus number where all sorts of practical considerations, including commercial ones, had restricted the composer’s choices.Each disc of this Hyperion edition takes a journey through Brahms’s career. The songs are not quite presented in chronological order (Brahms had a way of including earlier songs in later opus numbers) but they do appear here in the order that the songs were presented to the world. Each recital represents a different journey through the repertoire (and thus through Brahms’s life). In a number of these Hyperion recitals an opus number will be presented in its entirety (in the case of this disc, Op 48). The folksongs of 1894 will be shared between all the singers in the series. In a letter to Marie Scherer of 20 October 1894 we learn of Brahms’s reaction to an evening (arranged by the well-meaning Amalie Joachim) where an entire evening was given over to these Volkslieder: ‘I do not think it a happy idea to spend a whole evening singing nothing but these folksongs. A few introduced among other (serious and sober!) songs might be enjoyable and refreshing.’ In this series this is exactly what will happen.Graham Johnson © 2010

• Wykonawca Kirchschlager Angelika , Johnson Graham
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

The Bach Collegium Japan was founded by Masaaki Suzuki 20 years ago, in 1990, and the team’s cycle of Bach’s Cantatas was launched five years later, in November 1995. Now, 46 volumes and fifteen years later, the series has entered the final stretch but is still going as strong as ever. Reviews of recent volumes speak for themselves – ‘With Suzuki you can hear Bach's heart beat...’ the reviewer in International Record Review wrote in regards to Volume 40, while Volume 43 caused the critic in Fanfare to rhapsodize: ‘a set for the ages, not only performed with consummate style, historical considerations, and musical substance, but with a feeling for these seminal religious works that transcends the merely mechanical presentation that we so often - too often - hear.’ There is certainly nothing mechanical about the present performances, of three works which in emotional content range from the joyful vitality of the Advent cantata BWV36 to the meditations upon death and the leave-taking of this world which permeate BWV27. As always the opening choruses are of particular interest, for instance that of Cantata BWV47, a striking example of Bach’s skills in illustrating a text in music but also a highly complex composition in which the interplay between choir and orchestra is beautifully balanced. The soloists also have their share of  fine moments on this instalment. Hana Blažíková, dubbed ‘an ideal Bach soprano’ in International Record Review on account of her performance on the previous Cantata volume, performs the charming and playful aria ‘Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen’ with solo violin, while Robin Blaze and Peter Kooij – both veterans of this series – each have received a true display piece in the form of the two arias of BWV27.

• Wykonawca Bach Collegium Japan , Blazikova Hana , Blaze Robin , Mizukoshi Satoshi , Kooij Peter
• Data premiery 2010-08-01
• Nośnik SACD

=REMASTERED RUDY VAN GELDER SERIES= 1. THE ALL SEEING EYE 2. GENESIS 3. CHAOS 4. FACE OF THE DEEP 5. MEPHISTOPHELES

• Wykonawca Shorter Wayne
• Data premiery 2000-09-11
• Nośnik CD